10 May 1811: anonymous sale at Philips Auctioneerd, London (auction house), lot no. 68

Unknown date: acquired by Robert Langton Douglas (art dealer), London

Unknown date: acquired by M. Knoedler & Co. (art dealer), London

1930: acquired by Ernst G. Rathenau, Berlin, and Ellen Ettlinger-Rathenau (....-1994), Oxford/New York City

1940: purchased by the Führermuseum, Linz, Inventory number 1434, through Dienststelle Kai Mühlmann, The Hague

Unknown date: transferred to a salt mine in Alt-Aussee

Unknown date: transferred to the Central Collecting Point, Munich, inv. 1416/1

Exhibition of Works by Rembrandt. Winter exhibition, thirteenth year, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2 January 1899–11 March 1899, cat. no.  4.

Ausstellung von Werken alter Kunst aus dem Privatbesitz von Mitgliedern des Kaiser Friedrich-Museums-Vereins, Königliche Akademie der Künste, Berlin, May 1914, cat. no.  134.

Historische tentoonstelling. 650-jarig bestaan van Amsterdam 1275-1925, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 3 July 1925–15 September 1925, cat. no.  524.

Rembrandt tentoonstelling ter plechtige herdenking van het 300-jarig bestaan der Universiteit van Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 11 June 1932–4 September 1932, cat. no.  42.

Herwonnen Kunstbezit, 16 March 1946–May 1946, Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen Mauritshuis, The Hague, cat. no.  54.

Herwonnen Kunstbezit, 1 October 1946–30 October 1946, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Cat.no. 78.

Dutch painting, the Golden Age; an exhibition of Dutch pictures of the seventeenth century, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 1954–1955, OCLC 644452, p. 68.

Rembrandt. Sextiosex bilder från utställningen i Nationaluseum, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 12 January 1956–15 April 1956, cat. no.  45.

Tentoonstelling van werken van Rembrandt en zijn school ter gelegenheid van het 350e jaar, sedert zijn geboortedag, 1956-1957, Hermitage, Saint Petersburg, v, Moscow, p. 62.

Terre des Hommes/Man and his world, 1967, Montreal, Cat.no. 24.

The age of Rembrandt, 19 October 1968–22 December 1968, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 11 January 1969–2 February 1969, Kyoto Municipal Museum, Kyoto, Cat.no. 53.

Rembrandt 1669/1969, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 13 September 1969–30 November 1969, cat. no.  23.

1945-1970. Vijfentwintig jaar aanwinsten Mausritshuis, 19 October 1970–28 October 1970, Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen Mauritshuis, The Hague.

Rembrandt en zijn tijd, Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, City of Brussels, 23 September 1971–21 November 1971, OCLC 63826891, cat. no.  84.

Mauritshuis, Dutch paintings of the Golden Age, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, The Art Institute of Chigaco, Chicago, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, 1982-1983, cat. no.  30.

Dutch painting of the Golden Age from the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, 24 April 1984–10 June 1984, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 14 June 1984–1 July 1984, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, 21 July 1984–2 September 1984, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Cat.no. 31.

De Rembrandt à Vermeer, Grand Palais, Paris, 1986, Cat.no. 42.

Rembrandt, The master and his workshop, Altes Museum, Berlin, 12 September 1991–10 November 1991, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 4 December 1991–1 March 1992, National Gallery, London, 26 March 1992–24 May 1992, Cat.no. 51.

Rembrandt by himself/Rembrandt zelf, 5 June 1999–5 September 1999, National Gallery, London, 25 September 1999–9 January 2000, Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen Mauritshuis, The Hague, Cat.no. 86.

Kopstukken. Amsterdammers geportretteerd 1600-1800, Amsterdams Historisch Museum, Amsterdam, 10 October 2002–26 January 2003, Cat.no. 37.

Rembrandt Rembrandt, 1 February 2003–11 May 2003, Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Cat.no. 48.

Signature and date center left:

• Rembrandt catalogue raisonné, 1914, 527 
• Rembrandt catalogue raisonné, 1968, 420
• A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings VI, 323
• Rembrandt catalogue raisonné, 1935, 62
• Rembrandt catalog raisonné, 1986, 179
• Rembrandt catalogue raisonné, 1908, 479 R
• Die Gemäldesammlung Marcus Kappel in Berlin, 21
• The Complete Paintings of Rembrandt, 450
• http://www.rembrandtdatabase.org/Rembrandt/painting/2949/self-portrait 
• https://www.mauritshuis.nl/nl-nl/verdiep/de-collectie/kunstwerken/zelfportret-840/
• https://www.europeana.eu/de/item/2021672/resource_document_mauritshuis_840
• https://www.verenigingrembrandt.nl/nl/kunst/zelfportret
• https://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/r/rembrand/27self/24sp1669.html
• Linz DB ID: LI001441 
• RKDimages ID: 2949 
• MCCP ID: 1416/1 
• NYARC Discovery ID: b1052666